EFA 1

30.08.2021 – 13.30 – Flagey

European Film Awards | Short Matters!

Discover 3 programmes composed of awarded shorts at famous film festivals such as Berlin, Venice or Rotterdam.

НИНА

Hristo Simeonov

Pays Bulgaria

Genre Fiction

2019 - 19' - Couleur

Nina is a street pickpocket under the control of Vassil, who collects everything she can steal. They live under one roof, but sometimes Nina dreams about escaping. In another attempt to pickpocket Nina is captured. To her surprise, the victim of the robbery offers her help to go home.

Në Mes

Samir Karahoda

Pays Kosovo

Genre Documentary

2019 - 13'36'' - Couleur

Brothers and sons who live abroad build identical houses to express the equality and unity in family. An empathetic portrait of the families that, by economic necessity, need to live much of their lives separated and living in cultures not their own.

A Mordida

Pedro Neves Marques

Pays Portugal

Genre Fiction

2019 - 26' - Couleur

Between a house in the Atlantic forest and a genetically-modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggles to survive an epidemic spreading across Brazil. While in the factory millions of mosquitos are born daily inside test tubes, the power dynamics between Helmut, Calixto, and Tao only intensifies. The Bite is a film found somewhere between horror, science fiction and a queer drama.